Managing Partner

Salley Trefethen

Salley is the managing partner of First and Central Coaching. She is a coach, facilitator, and organizational development consultant whose passion is growing companies by growing their people. Her specialty is moving people from team in name to team in fact. She challenges people to investigate their thinking—their assumptions about themselves and others. She gives them the skill to express themselves courageously, authentically, while staying connected. In working with Salley, people develop new awareness, new approaches, new possibilities, deeper commitment and connection. Groups discover the glue that binds them together—what they value and what they are committed to achieving. They discover how to keep the group together, focused on the goal—how to close the communication gaps, how to recover from communication gaffs.

Working with Salley is like being at home with all the lights on, getting fully engaged with who you are—your lovable, capable, whole and complete self.

Executive Coach

Kathy Fleming

Kathy Fleming, MA, PCC is currently a Senior Leader with Accomplishment Coaching, co-leading year-long, in person, professional coach and leadership training programs in Seattle and San Diego. In addition to those who are creating thriving coaching practices, many program participants are executives in business and government, honing their leadership and coaching skills so that they can then “feed it forward.” Kathy is a former marketing manager with AT&T and holds Master’s degrees in Applied Behavioral Science/ Organizational Development and in Humanities/English as well as a Professional Certified Coach credential from the ICF.

Kathy has extensive experience as an executive coach, leadership trainer, and consultant within large organizations such as Alcoa, Illinois Power, Techtronics, Hewlett Packard, the EPA, and various state and local government agencies. Kathy is a master at being open-hearted and authentic…her proudest achievements and her ongoing work. She specializes in seeing the possibilities that lie within her clients, helping them open the doors to bring those possibilities to fruition. She is a powerful stand for what her clients want to produce, creating partnerships in re-invention and breakthrough results.

Executive Coach

Diane Malnekoff

Diane Malnekoff, Ph.D. is a senior-level executive coach with deep knowledge in management psychology. She is founder and principal of DM Consulting, and was an executive in international aviation prior to becoming a corporate psychologist. As an executive she built an organization and operations in the US and the Far East. Her dual expertise in leadership and doctoral-level psychology combined with knowledge and experience with organizational systems and dynamics uniquely qualifies her to help leaders to discover critical personal insights, transform their careers and take their effectiveness to the next level.

Diane offers quality consultation in leadership assessment and executive coaching through providing intensive feedback and action planning. The assessment process drives selection decisions and individual coaching plans as well as succession planning, development and promotions. The sophisticated system may utilize only well established scientifically developed tests, many of which are only available to psychologists and professionals with a strong assessment background. Additional qualitative measures enhance and deepen results.

Diane serves management, boards, executives and professionals and also partners with venture capital firms providing due diligence in assessing and moving their management teams through all stages of growth. She has coached and consulted internally with 3M Optical Systems Engineering, Wells Fargo, Pacific Gas & Electric. Clients and other industry experience includes biotech, healthcare, manufacturing, research, and multiple areas of high tech and the internet.

Executive Coach

Rebecca Perry

Rebecca is a seasoned executive coach and consultant with over 25 years of experience in coaching leaders at all levels in a wide range of industries and sectors. Rebecca’s early coaching career included working with the leadership teams of a Fortune 100 company for 10 years, where she was ranked as one of the company’s best. For the past 18 years she has been an external consultant with a partial client list that includes Hewlett-Packard, Mentor Graphics, Microsoft and Nike. She is a skillful, flexible and results-oriented coach and facilitator specializing in succession planning and leadership development, creative collaboration and internal cultural branding.

Equally at ease in 1:1 coaching situations and highly conflicted multi-stakeholder decision-making summits, Rebecca is a certified conflict resolution facilitator, mediator and an experienced practitioner of the MBTI (Myers-Briggs), the Hogan Leadership Assessment, the DiSC Insights Inventory— and many other tools in strategic planning, effective communication and emotional intelligence. She’s an experienced facilitator of action learning—including “ropes course” adventure education. She recently helped accelerate the implementation of several whole-system change initiatives in quality/Six Sigma, customer service and information technology. Clients describe her style as perceptive, encouraging and candid; an effective combination of both backbone and heart. With an emphasis on practical, real-world application, Rebecca offers a combination of accountability tools and a safe, supportive forum for taking a step back in order to move forward with more velocity.

Rebecca is an adjunct faculty member in Organization Transformation at Portland State University. Her Master’s degree is in Applied Behavioral Science / Organization Development.